Issues & Ale: Seeing Green in Lake Erie Mon, August 20, 6:30-8:00 PM Black Cloister Brewing Company 619 Monroe St, Toledo, OH 43604 In the summer of 2014, toxic bacteria in Lake Erie forced some 400,000 people in the Toledo area (including several communities in southeast Michigan) to stop bathing in or drinking their tap water. Although the past few years have not been as bad, farm runoff and other factors have led to toxic cyanobacteria blooms in western Lake Erie every summer since then.